Past events

In Gardanne, Provence, WwW France took part in a World Social Forum event with a stand promoting our organisation and the upcoming forum, and we co-organised a workshop: “towards a culture of nonviolence”.

In Athens, on the 12th of April, The Global Day of Actions against Military Spending, World without Wars, dressed up as the “invisibles”, together with other 10 organizations and 2 political parties, carried out an important event in order to create awareness of the extremely high military expenditure, especially in contrast to the severe budget cuts in social services (salaries, pensions, health, education etc.).

The WwW base team in Brno co-organized a demonstration against currently proposed reforms. The Czech government is planning to make major changes to the pension system, healthcare, education system and other areas. According to experts, these reforms will lead to a significant reduction in the living standard of most citizens.

In Milan on April 2nd, together with other social organizations and political parties, World without Wars participated in a big demonstration against the war in Libya. Similar demonstrations took place at the same time in many other Italian cities.

In Madrid on March 26th World without Wars participated in a demonstration organised by several Left groups with the slogan “No to dictatorships and imperialism. For the emancipation of the Arab peoples.”

On February the 12th the news of Mubarak’s resignation transformed a march organised by the Egyptian community in Milan to support the protest in Cairo into a joyful celebration joined by members of WwW and other groups.

On January 29th a "Festival of dances for nonviolence" was organized in Vigo. This event launched the campaign "Thousands of consciousnesses connected in nonviolence, from January 30th to October 2nd. A path to travel."

More or less 100 dancers participated and the audience was around 500 people. Besides the dances, members of WwW explained the campaign and talked about nonviolence.

On December 22nd 2010, the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Economic Management of St. Petersburg, the World March book has been given to the Vice-chancellor Gnevko Victor Andrevich in front of 500 students and professors.

On the 30th of November, 2 days before World AIDS day, World without Wars and Violence in cooperation with the NGO “Positive Voice” made a protest outside the Greek Ministry of Health through the standard “Invisibles” campaign that has taken place in the country throughout the whole of 2010. There were also representatives of two other organisations and all together we delivered a list with the demands to the Minister of Health.